A prominent Republican Congressman has resigned in the wake of a scandalous discovery regarding sexually explicit emails he sent to male teenage pages.

Mark Foley was chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, and had just introduced tough new legislation to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet.

"We track library books better than we do sexual predators," Foley has said, which, in light of his emails, makes my stomach turn.

The emails in question included one to a 15-year-old page asking "Do I make you a little horny?" Several other suggestive emails were sent to various male pages, all young teenaged boys.

I think the only thing worse than a child sexual predator is one who pretends to be the opposite - especially one who is in a position of power and privilege. I hope this was brought to light prior to any actual physical assaults.